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The academic advantage of devotion: Measuring variation in the value of weekly worship in late adolescence on educational attainment using propensity score matching. Kim, Jeanne (2015) Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 54:3: 555-574.

Analyzes survey data from American young adults born between 1980 & '84. Youth who attended church frequently at age 17 completed more years of education than others; the advantage is greatest for those from lower income families.

Associated Search Terms: Practice; Education; Panelstudy; Youth

Awe of God, congregational embeddedness, and religious meaning in life. Krause, Neal, and R. David Hayward (2015) Review of Religious Research 57:2: 219-238.

Analyzes panel survey data (1st wave 2001) from Christian Americans. Worship participation predicts awe of God, which in turn predicts sharing common values with congregants, which in turn predicts a sense of belongingness, which predicts a sense of meaning in life.

Analyzes 2006-2010 General Social Survey (U.S.A.) panel data. Conversion from one religion to another increases religiosity, from one Protestant denomination to another affects practice modestly but not belief. Non-affiliates become less religious. Protestants with no denomination resemble other Protestants.

Based on a Southern California panel study. Religiosity increases with age, though attendance drops in old age. For younger cohorts, spirituality becomes increasingly detached from religion & God is less transcendent & more immanent.

Rejecting evolution: The role of religion, education, and social networks. Hill, Jonathan P. (2014) Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 53:3: 575-594.

Analyzes 2002-08 telephone interview data from 2002-03 U.S.A. teens, with follow-ups. Religiosity in denominations that reject evolution, especially when networks consist of fellow members in them, predicts the rejection of evolution more than does, inversely, educational attainment.

Religious coping: The role of religion in attenuating the effect of sexual victimization of college women on trust. Tamburello, Jeffrey A., Kyle Irwin, and Martha Gault Sherman (2014) Review of Religious Research 56:4: 581-595.

Analyzes 1990-95 panel data from a convenience sample of undergraduate women in a state-supported American university. Religious participation can mitigate the negative effects of sexual victimization on generalized trust.

Analyzes 1995 questionnaire and 2004-06 follow-up questionnaire data (Midlife Development in the United States data). People broadly victimized as children are more likely than others to have a born-again experience.

Based on the 2002-04 & 2008 waves of the National study of Youth and Religion (U.S.A.) study. Protestant secondary schooling predicts more volunteering in young adulthood & non-religious private schooling less.

Based on 1970-2005 panel questionnaire & interview data from families. Intense religiosity & non-religiosity were transmitted across generations more successfully than middling levels of religiosity. The quality of parent/child relationships was important in religious socialization.

Is Urban Fathers' Religion Important for Their Children's Behavior?Petts, Richard J. (2011) Review of Religious Research 53:2: 183-206.

Analyzes panel data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (urban, U.S.A.). Suggests religion may encourage urban fathers to be engaged in their family life & thereby promote positive development among their children.

Associated Search Terms: Panelstudy; Children; Family; Urban

Religious Socialization and Church Attendance in the Netherlands from 1983 to 2007: A Panel Study.Vermeer, Paul, Jacques Janssen, and Joep de Hart (2011) Social Compass 58:3: 373-392.

Based on a 1983 study of secondary students & a 2007 follow-up. Church attendance during secondary school was not a good prediction of adult religious involvement.

The Influence of Religion on Ties between the Generations. King, Valarie (2010) In Christopher G. Ellison and Robert A. Hummer (eds.) Religion, Families, and Health. Population-Based Research in the United States. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, pp. 86-105.

Analyzes 1983-97 American telephone interview panel data from married persons & their children. Religious fathers have a higher quality of relationship with their adult children.

Associated Search Terms: Family; Generations; Panelstudy

Religion and the Timing of First Births in the United States. Pearce, Lisa D. (2010) In Christopher G. Ellison and Robert A. Hummer (ed.) Religion, Families, and Health. Population-Based Research in the United States. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, pp. 19-39.

Analyzes 1979-2000 panel data from a U.S.A. sample aged 14-22 in 1979. Those reared Catholic & Evangelical were more likely to have pre-marital births; attendance negatively predicts that & first marital births.

Associated Search Terms: Fertility; Panelstudy; Sexual activity

Religion and Physical Health among U.S. Adults.Musick, Marc A., and Meredith G.F. Worthen (2010) In Christopher G. Ellison and Robert A. Hummer (eds.) Religion, Families, and Health. Population-Based Research in the United States. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, pp. 248-272.

The Panel Study on American Religion and Ethnicity: Background, Methods, and Selected Results.Emerson, Michael O., David Sikkink, and Adele D. James (2010) Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 49:1:162-171.

Religion and Family Values Reconsidered. Gender Traditionalism among Conservative Protestants.Bartkowski, John P., and Xiaohe Xu (2010) In Christopher G. Ellison and Robert A. Hummer (eds.) Religion, Families, and Health. Population-Based Research in the United States. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, pp. 106-125.

Analyzes 1988-96 National (U.S.A.) Survey of Families and Households data. Biblical inerrancy views & attendance predict gender role traditionalism. Maternalist ideology persists over time more than does separate spheres ideology. Denominational affiliation only has effects through inerrancy views & attendance.

1997-2004 panel data show students in Catholic & Mainline Protestant universities declining in religious practice more than those in secular universities, & both of these declining more than in Evangelical universities.

Analyzes 1990s survey data for U.S.A. adoelscents (Add Health). Higher religious Evangelical adolescents were more likely to enter the military than the non-religious & the highly religious non-evangelical.

Associated Search Terms: Peace/war; Panelstudy; Military; Adolescents

Trajectories of Religious Participation from Adolescence to Young Adulthood. Petts, Richard J. (2009) Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 48:3:552-571.

Analyzes 1979-94 panel data from American adolescents/young adults; family structure during early adolescence affected later practice patterns.

Denominational Identity from Age Sixteen to Age Thirty-Eight.Hoge, Dean R., and Thomas P. O'Connor (2004) Sociology of Religion 65:1: 77-85.

Interviews at age 38 of 16-year-old respondents in 1975 show childhood denomination, family culture, & good experiences in youth programs predicted denominational loyalty. Adult experiences had little effect.

Religiousness and Spirituality. Trajectories and Vital Involvement in Late Adulthood.Dillon, Michele, and Paul Wink (2003) In Michele Dillon (ed.) Handbook of the Sociology of Religion. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 179-189.

Based on panel study beginning in the 1920s in Berkeley, California. Trends across late adulthood in religiosity & participation in spirituality.